Webback
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Noun
webback (plural webbacks)
- a work of fiction which is published in printed as well as eBook format[1] with addenda, glossaries, back-stories and tangentially linked information available online thereby extending the narrative as determined by the reader's curiosity[2] rather than the writer's design.
Notes
- enhanced eBooks with hotlinks embedded into the text are not strictly webbacks, they're... um... e-ebooks[3]
- one of the earliest examples of the webback was SLABSCAPE: RESET published in 2010 by [Blipbooks]
- the next one in the series, SLABSCAPE: DAMMIT, published in 2014, was instrumental in making the dominant distribution channel of the day wake up and realise what they had created.
See also
Footnotes and references
- ↑ back in the days before Neural Implants virtually eliminated textural reading
- ↑ often, subjecting themselves to Linktrigue
- ↑ maybe